Tippin' it up to Nancy

There is a woman in our town

A woman you ought know well

She dearly loved her husband

But another one twice as well

With me right finnick-an-air-ee-o

Me tip finnick-a-wall

With me right finnick-an-air-ee-o

We’re tippin’ it up to Nancy

She went down to the chemist shop

Some remedies for to buy

Have you anything in your chemist shop

To make the old man blind?

With me right finnick-an-air-ee-o

Me tip finnick-a-wall

With me right finnick-an-air-ee-o

We’re tippin’ it up to Nancy

You give him the eggs and marrowbones

You make him suck them all,

And before he has the last one sucked

He won't see you at all

With me right finnick-an-air-ee-o

Me tip finnick-a-wall

With me right finnick-an-air-ee-o

We’re tippin’ it up to Nancy

She gave him the eggs and marrowbones

She made him suck them all,

And before he had the last one sucked

He won’t see her at all.

With me right finnick-an-air-ee-o

Me tip finnick-a-wall

With me right finnick-an-air-ee-o

We’re tippin’ it up to Nancy

If in this world I cannot see

It’s here I cannot stay.

I'd rather go and drown myself

"Come on," says she, "and I'll show you the way"

With me right finnick-an-air-ee-o

Me tip finnick-a-wall

With me right finnick-an-air-ee-o

We’re tippin’ it up to Nancy

She took him to the river

She took him to the brim

But it was sly enough of Martin

It was him that shoved her in

With me right finnick-an-air-ee-o

Me tip finnick-a-wall

With me right finnick-an-air-ee-o

We’re tippin’ it up to Nancy

She swam through the river

She swam to the brim

"Oh Martin, oh Martin

Don't leave me here behind.”

“Arah, shut up outa that ye silly aul fool

Ye know your Martin is blind"

With me right finnick-an-air-ee-o

We’re tippin’ it up to Nancy

There's nine in the family

There’s none of them is my own,

I wish that each and every man

Would come and claim his own.

With me right finnick-an-air-ee-o

Me tip finnick-a-wall

With me right finnick-an-air-ee-o

We’re tippin’ it up to

Right finnick-an-air-ee-o

Me tip finnick-a-wall

With me right finnick-an-air-ee-o

We’re tippin’ it up to

Right finnick-an-air-ee-o

Me tip finnick-a-wall

With me right finnick-an-air-ee-o

We’re tippin’ it up to Nancy